Samsung 840 SSD problem?

[ccaian]

I have the 840 gb but I can't get it to work with the SAMSUNG magician program. It just says it cannot detect a samsung disk drive. Here's some background:

 

At some point during my overclocking adventures, I screwed up and had to press the reset CMOS button. That was long ago, like a month. The only problem I encountered was that I couldn't activate windows. Still not activated even today, like 3 days left. Might have to call them.

I'm sort of amateurish at this stuff. I just followed what linus did in that techtips video where he upgraded his cameramans ssd. My motherboard is the x58 ud3r rev 2.0, I had a friend build it for me and after that I only upgraded the GPU, PSU and now the SSD. I didn't update any BIOS/SATA drivers etc., all those drivers those that couldn't be installed in Windows.

 

I mounted the SSD first,  then connected the power supply cable to the ssd, and the sata cable from the ssd to the sata 3 one.( The white colour one. ) I already unplugged the other HDD. I then started up the system and changed something to AHCI, then change the boot priority so that the CD would boot first. After windows is installed, I installed all the drivers and plugged the other HDD. Then installed the software and encountered this problem.

 

Thats the most I can elaborate :P

[Oisin Maguire]

-by any chance did you remove the boot information from the hdd.

-did you make the ssd the primary boot device.

 

id clean the hdd regardless.

[ccaian]

-by any chance did you remove the boot information from the hdd.

-did you make the ssd the primary boot device.

 

id clean the hdd regardless.

So I need to erase both drives data clean, then install windows again on the ssd? I dont mind as this is my gaming computer and there is no important shit at all. And yes, I set the 840 as the primary drive.

[Oisin Maguire]

no no on the ssd is fine with its fresh install {good choice} but you should clean the other drive as thats still going to keep all the old boot information as well as the entire os

[ccaian]

Well I just put in the SSD ( No Hard Disk ) and it still says it can't detect my stupid SSD :( Any thoughts?

[Snickerzz]

Well I just put in the SSD ( No Hard Disk ) and it still says it can't detect my stupid SSD :( Any thoughts?

what about changing the sata type in the bios to ahci

[ccaian]

I did that but didn't help. Nevermind though, I solved my own problem. I just removed the sata cable and plugged it in the one next to it. Works like a charm now....

[garbeth]

basically what you were doing was telling to your computer: here you have your HDD, but when the computer was going to read the kluster for fire up the info for the OS didn´t recognised the SSD ID kluster because it wasn´t the original HDD, whenever you install a new HDD or SSD do not use the same SATA conector in the motherboard that had your previous HDD or SSD as your primary unit. I hope this explanation help to understand the problem. If any one want to add or correct me in something please fell free to do it.

 

thank you